The report, from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), treads carefully and breaks little new ground, endorsing industry relationships while urging its 22 member societies and their 84,000 scientists to educate themselves and their trainees on existing conflict-of-interest rules.
If the administration has been slow to embrace industry-backed farm animal welfare proposals that we consider constructive, it has been quick to endorse industry's various efforts to undermine advances in reforming the sector.
At the mobile industry's annual convention in Barcelona, a group of the world's biggest operators endorsed an industry effort to develop the new standard, called Voice over L.T.E., or VoLTE, by March 2011.
President-elect Obama has endorsed the industry's call for raising the number of H-1B temporary work visas, which are available now to only 65,000 skilled foreign engineers each year.
The targets will use a science-based methodology approved and endorsed by industry and other stakeholders, which is consistent with the goal of keeping global temperature rise below 2C (35.6F).
It believes initiatives such as The City & Guilds TechBac® (a new curriculum developed and endorsed by industry to enable young people to develop skills to become "work ready"), 14 19 college programmes and the rejuvenation of university technical colleges show that vocational education is no longer considered the second tier of the UK education system.
In a statement the Daily Mail defended its stance and put the argument in the context of a meeting of the Privy Council next Wednesday due to discuss whether to endorse an industry sponsored form of self-regulation or one supported by the three political parties.
Given Spielberg's incontrovertible commercial success, calling out the hollow core of his work feels like laying oneself open to the charge of élitism, of "hating Hollywood" (a glance at my best-of lists should make it plain that I don't) — as if it were the job of anyone but a studio publicist to endorse the industry as a whole rather than its best works.
Trade groups for the nursing home industry endorsed the federal initiative.
The securities industry endorsed a plan yesterday by the National Association of Securities Dealers requiring analysts to disclose potential conflicts of interest.
